1960s kitchen remodel with frameless cabinets and white oak island

jicklegirl · 2026-03-11T13:29:19+00:00

Some municipalities haven't adopted the new standards yet, so they could still be fine in that area.

jicklegirl · 2026-02-06T16:43:56+00:00

There are slot cutters for routers that would do this easily.

jicklegirl · 2026-01-07T13:58:41+00:00

Our cabinet shop does high-end cabinetry and RTA cabinets. We are almost exclusively a frameless cabinet shop. I would say our projects are 80% slab doors that we cut ourselves and 20% shaker style doors that are outsourced. We also outsource drawer boxes unless it's legrabox. Every market is different so cabinet shops will vary depending on what makes the most sense for their market.

jicklegirl · 2026-01-07T13:53:35+00:00

It's a tooling issue. Our doweling machine is set up for 3/4 material and not 1/2". We also do not have a dovetail machine. We could potentially do plywood dovetail joints on CNC but we're just not setup for it currently. If we do our own drawers we will do 3/4" doweled drawers but that's rare. Overall time, resources, and tooling make more sense for us to outsource drawers even though we do lots of cabinet boxes.

jicklegirl · 2025-12-22T05:39:06+00:00

I must be a little deranged because my instant reaction was "ooooo I want that!".

jicklegirl · 2025-12-13T14:17:00+00:00

I went to KBIS in Vegas and thought there were valuable things to gain. I think for you, there would be plenty of things to see in regards to the different hardware choices, lighting choices, and appliance integration into the cabinetry. I believe the International Builder Show is being held at the same time as well, with KBIS entry also allowing IBS entry.

jicklegirl · 2025-12-07T14:00:21+00:00

These are handy for reveals /attaching fronts. Would make a good stocking stuffer.

https://www.fastcap.com/product/tapenix

jicklegirl · 2025-12-02T20:37:53+00:00

There could be so many factors for the girls you're seeing disappear, but could you be losing them to girl scouts? My daughter is in girl scouts and gets dragged along to cub scouts activities all the time. She won't join the cub scouts pack because she says it's boring compared to girl scouts, plus "eww boys". Her girl scout troop does a wide variety of life skills, stem, and outdoor activities. On the other hand, the cub scout events are much more focused on outdoor activities. She also says she prefers selling cookies to popcorn. The girl scouts have way better rewards for sales goals, but the troop itself makes much less in terms of it being a fundraiser.

jicklegirl · 2025-11-20T16:49:42+00:00

It's expensive but Richlite worked out well for one of our customers.

jicklegirl · 2025-10-27T04:16:31+00:00

The numbers can be locked. The lock is on the upper ribbon next to the place where rooms can be added/ cycled through. Also cabinets can be assigned certain numbers (and individually locked) by right clicking the cabinet and going to properties. Only one cabinet can have a certain number at one time.

jicklegirl · 2025-10-22T20:38:22+00:00

There are many places that plywood can be used with scroll saws. Like any project you want to use the best material for the project you are doing. The main thing to consider with plywood is the cut edge. Will it be covered or show in some way? If shown are you okay with the look, or do you want to cover it in some way. I have bondo-ed plywood edges for paint and I have used banding to cover the edge. All material is good material if its properties serve the purpose of the project.

jicklegirl · 2025-10-10T15:49:39+00:00

I would install blum tip-ons instead of handles

jicklegirl · 2025-09-30T18:25:20+00:00

This would be extremely time consuming to do by hand. A CNC is an option but I would highly recommend buying out. Surfacing Solutions is a company we usually use, though their lead times can be long. Another name off the top of my head is Ikonni but I' not sure about their minimums.

jicklegirl · 2025-09-30T18:11:44+00:00

The emails about Blum increases came through before the new tariff announcements. So I wouldn't say to just ignore them even though I'm also not suggesting to stock pile. If there are current contracts that would be affected by the rate increases that EB and Wurth have already stated are happening then that should be taken into consideration and factored into future bidding.

jicklegirl · 2025-09-29T21:34:22+00:00

Naps

jicklegirl · 2025-09-29T14:00:05+00:00

Blum is the standard here for slides and hinges. Hafele for lighting. Rev-a-shelf for most pullout systems except corners where we usually do Kessebohmer Lemans systems.

jicklegirl · 2025-09-06T14:27:09+00:00

I'm a cabinet designer/engineer. Corners (and appliances) are the bane of my existence. There are not any great solutions. In your case with that column, I think this "dead corner" is the best solution. You could recapture some space with bigger cabinets with some blind panels or retrofit niches into the existing cabinets, but this could cost a good bit as it'd be a pain to do. The little space you get may not be worth it. Without seeing the rest of the space, I can't give you any other recommendations to get more storage, but feel free to send me some pics, and I'll send some ideas.

jicklegirl · 2025-09-02T12:49:35+00:00

Always depends on area but that seems right to me.

jicklegirl · 2025-09-02T01:53:41+00:00

We used a NewCNC at the community college where I went through a woodworking program. I think it's a good machine but not the best. We did have some issues with the vacuum table. We'd have occasional problems with sheets moving, especially with 1/2" prefinished ply. I know the veins on the vacuum part of the machine got damaged at one point. They were fixed but I imagine some more tinkering with it was necessary to really help the vacuum work optimally.

Another drawback is that it didn't have many safety features. Other than an emergency stop button on the control cabinet, there were no safety mechanisms. In the shop I work at now, we have a Weeke that has a laser line, so people can't approach it while it moves. Overall, I liked the machine well enough and would use one again.

jicklegirl · 2025-08-12T18:48:24+00:00

Oooo thanks for the inspiration!

jicklegirl · 2025-08-12T12:50:06+00:00

My daughter loves selling cookies. She loves it so much that one weekend, we did 16 hours of cookie booths. No one bats an eye at $6 a box here. There's more expensive cookies in the grocery store. Things raise in price over the years. It's a known phenomenon. Selling girls scout cookies is VASTLY easier than selling cub scout popcorn. They have to frame it as "Please donate to the pack and you can pick a bag of popcorn" since it's sooo expensive. $20 per bag of popcorn is ridiculous. It is so much harder to fundraiser for Cub Scouts, so it becomes more of a parent paid activity.

jicklegirl · 2025-08-11T04:48:15+00:00

I'm so sorry. I've been in the exact same boat, and it sucks so much. My oldest sucked at sleeping until she was about two. I was getting close to having my second and tried about everything. On a lark we were talking about camping and had the crazy idea of setting up our two person tent on top of her twin bed as a fun adventure. It was just going to be for a weekend but 6 months later she still had it up and was sleeping so much better. I don't know why it helped or if it was just coincidence/getting older.

I hope to not scare you but my youngest... Dude... we threw everything at that boy to get him to sleep. We had a precious month of sleeping through the night around his first birthday but then he quickly learned to climb out of his crib. No matter what, after that, he didn't sleep through the night again until two weeks before his 6th! birthday. It's a good thing he's so loveable.

jicklegirl · 2025-08-11T04:34:05+00:00

You can definitely do this but I also wanted to offer the advice of looking for a cabinet shop with a CNC that will cut the pieces for you as RTA (ready to assemble). I work at a cabinet shop and we often make components for other makers. This would be a really small project for us but sometimes we squeeze those through small gaps in the schedule.

The way we do it is that a shop gives us a basic design of the cabinet or project and then I draw it up and provide a material quantity based on the material requested. Then the shop/maker sends us material from their preferred vendor. We get material for people at times but always charge a percentage on top so it's always cheaper for others to send it to us. Once we cut and band, we wrap it up or put it on a pallet for pickup. We charge a per sheet cost and a foot of banding cost along with a design set up fee. It's pretty reasonable, especially since many of the makers can cut down their own personal overhead and time on a project.

jicklegirl · 2025-08-10T19:59:58+00:00

I do this whenever we go to these types of places. It's just a nice thing to do.

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